Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smith Tower E15753 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Lyman Cornelius Smith
Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E189740 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Lyman Cornelius Smith | Statement: [Smith Tower, namedAfter, Lyman Cornelius Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lyman Cornelius Smith
Context triple: [Smith Tower, namedAfter, Lyman Cornelius Smith]
  • A. George Philip Wells
    George Philip Wells was a British zoologist and author, known both for his scientific work and as the son of writer H. G. Wells.
  • B. Dr. Emlen Physick Jr.
    Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. was a 19th-century physician and member of a prominent Philadelphia family who became known as the original owner and resident of the now-historic Victorian Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey.
  • C. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • D. Silvanus P. Thompson
    Silvanus P. Thompson was a British physicist and electrical engineer known for his influential work in electromagnetism and for popularizing science through his writings and lectures.
  • E. Edward Condon
    Edward Condon was an American nuclear physicist and quantum mechanic known for major contributions to atomic spectroscopy and for co-formulating the Franck–Condon principle.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Lyman Cornelius Smith
Triple: [Smith Tower, namedAfter, Lyman Cornelius Smith]
Generated description
Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lyman Cornelius Smith
Target entity description: Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. George Philip Wells
    George Philip Wells was a British zoologist and author, known both for his scientific work and as the son of writer H. G. Wells.
  • B. Dr. Emlen Physick Jr.
    Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. was a 19th-century physician and member of a prominent Philadelphia family who became known as the original owner and resident of the now-historic Victorian Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey.
  • C. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • D. Silvanus P. Thompson
    Silvanus P. Thompson was a British physicist and electrical engineer known for his influential work in electromagnetism and for popularizing science through his writings and lectures.
  • E. Edward Condon
    Edward Condon was an American nuclear physicist and quantum mechanic known for major contributions to atomic spectroscopy and for co-formulating the Franck–Condon principle.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69a4935a94308190bb92555b79032824 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c06d73608190be87be49c4367072 completed March 1, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad718af9a08190b16c7df72d1ef1d3 completed March 8, 2026, 12:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad73705bd081909c021e55f7c1882b completed March 8, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad73d9746c8190b6d673bdb8c202d3 completed March 8, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:50 p.m.